I don't think that's true for all or even most vegans. Most vegans I know will lightly chide me to eat less animal products, and they'll list the benefits. I'm okay with that, especially because, well... they're right.

I say that because a lot of the vegans I know will explain a lot about the global socioeconomic conditions that make veganism and vegetarianism harder in poorer places.

I dunno, man, I feel like the most they're trying to do is be smug, and that's not that big of a deal to me, lol.

I think veganism just self selects for more "crazy" people, because you have to be pretty odd to go against what almost everyone else is doing. That said, I'm vegan and I basically fully agree with what they said.

I mean, that assumes everyone is vegan for the same reason. I have a friend who runs ultramarathons and she found she recovers faster from a long race on a vegan diet.

I'm vegetarian, I know a bunch of vegans. I don't know if I've ever felt ostracised by any of the vegans I've had a conversation with. I've also got many meat eating friends. We share perspectives with each other and can converse about things like adults (I don't want to eat anything that has a face). I honesly have no idea where the crazy vegans are apart from the news 🤷‍♂️